Editors: Cathy Chua & Robert Zajac Bulletin #10

2nd Zone 6 berths:

Bermuda Bowl                  Chinese Taipei

Venice Cup                       Japan

Youth Championship        Chinese Taipei

Senior Bowl                      Indonesia

PLAFOFF MATCH RESULTS

Japan Youth Team Interview

From left to right : Shiga Motoaki, Niekawa Takeshi, Yokoi Hiroki, Ikemoto Yuichi, Teramoto Tadashi, Ote Ruri, Tanaka Shugo

Ruri Ote (23 years old)

1 Two and half years.

2 Bridge club in university.

3 Once a two days

4 Korean foods is very delicious, I glad to play with many country people.

5 I think that he is very good NPC.

6 Very fun.

Hiroki Yokoi (20 years old)

1 Two years.

2 Bridge club in university.

3 About six days in a week.

4 I am very happy.

5 I think that he brought winning to us.

6 I enjoy Bridge very much.

Yuichi Ikemoto (23 years old)

1 Three years.

2 Bridge club in university.

3 Almost every day at Bridge club or BBO.

4 I can’t believe it.

5 I appreciate him for brought us good training. His teaching was very good and I could keep good mind.

6 Very interesting and enjoyable. I found very nice friends.

Shugo Tanaka (22 years old)

1 Six years.

2 Internet Bridge.

3 Once a week.

4 During the tournament I felt strong pressure as leader but now I feel comfortable.

5 I respect him very much and also appreciate him to brought winning. I could always keep good mind because he is with us.

6 I found big treasure to know Bridge. It is very interesting and helped to make many friends.

Takeshi Niekawa (23 years old)

1 Five years.

2 Bridge club in university.

3 Once a week.

4 I am happy to be winner. Opponents were very friendly and nice. Many Korean can speak Japanese and they are very kind for us.

5 Thanks a lot for him. We are happy that he is our captain.

6 Very interesting. It is good hobby for me.

Motoaki Shiga (20 years old)

1 Two years.

2 Bridge club in university.

3 Except on Sunday.

4 When we were leading I felt little pressure but I could play with good concentration.

5 He gave us methods against opponents systems. That worked well. Thanks.

6 Partnership improves bid and defense. That is very interesting only in Bridge.

Tadashi Teramoto (NPC)

JCBL started new method to select youth team and training. We selected 12 people in October then give them training. Also they played some major tournament in Japan and discussed with coach after much. We selected six members in March and continued training. Mainly I selected members and coached them. This time they did it very well. I am very glad. Do the best in Sydney!

Results of PABF Open Pairs Qualifying Round

Qualified Pairs for the finals are in bold type

Results of PABF Open Pairs Qualifying Round

Qualified Pairs for the finals are in bold type

NBO Winners of 2005 PABF Simultaneous Pairs

BBO Vugraph Report – Saturday Day 8

by Rick Wakeman

Well here is the computer and there is my bed – sigh! Okay, okay - just one more report.

May I start by saying that once again we successfully broadcast PABF bridge to the world. It wasn’t without lots of hiccups, but we did it! – 4 tables x 4 sessions and if you visit Nick’s vugraph project in Greece on the web, you can see 256 separate plays of the hand from today. Today was so chaotic on vugraph that I had a hard time tracking our viewers but a ballpark figure would be 1600. Why so low you ask? Well two nobody’s by the name of Meckstroth and Rodwell put on a show today from the European Pairs in Tenerife about the same time we had sessions 3 and 4. Why 1200 people would rather watch them than us is beyond my comprehension. But I am not very bright.

There was some glory in the BBO vugraph day for PABF though – at least 3 firsts that I know of – 1. A player won a trip to the Bermuda Bowl yesterday and operated vugraph today – never before in the history of BBO. 2. Simultaneous broadcast in 3 languages – to my knowledge a first for BBO. 3. One set of closed room commentators agreed to share the floor and broadcast into the room in both Japanese and Indonesian. The screen was looked like a psychedelic dream. Our challenge now is: “What more can we do?” Well I have an idea – how about two vugraph operators at each table in the open and closed rooms so that we have two rooms on broadcast into 4 internet vugraph theatres and allow Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese and English broadcasts of the same match. No I am not drunk – I just like to push the envelope.

We had a huge week of broadcasting and I will give you numbers if you are into numbers – by the end of today – 30 sessions of broadcast – 60 tables featured – more than 1000 hands played on vugraph.

Well Bobby is screaming for this article so must run – but I must mention the contribution of a few new folks to our operating team – Candice Feitelson – Aussie Women’s Team and Lee Young joon from the Korean Youth Team. I can’t say enough about the contribution that so many have made and are continuing to make to the BBO vugraph broadcast – so I will say a little – Thank You! – all of you will forever have a place in my heart for your excellent and unselfish contributions.

As an addendum, I want to say that this week for me personally has been a love story. I have had the time of my life here. I didn’t meet you all and that’s regrettanle, but perhaps another time, another place. I truly fell in love with the bridge players of the PABF, the organizers from the KCBL and the commentators from all over the world – you are truly magnificent people. You have touched my soul and given the most precious gift of all – your friendship. Bless you all and please know that I will always be ‘shoeless’ on BBO – I truly don’t like wearing those cursed things. Adios amigos. Don’t be surprised if I move to China.

Official Carrier of the 43^rd PABF

Playoffs for

Bermuda Bowl berths

Cathy Chua

Bd 17	ª 10
Dlr N	© 104
Vul Nil	¨ KQJ743
	§ J1095
ª KJ42		ª Q8
© K8		© AQJ9765
¨ A986		¨ ---
§ Q83		§ AK76
	ª A97653
	© 32
	¨ 1052
	§ 42

In the Closed Room, after North opened 3¨, East, Shimkizu for Japan, jumped to 4© and that ended proceedings, making 12 tricks, +480. The auction started the same way in the Open Room, but Nakamura didn’t want to leave things there. He tried 4ª and then made a dash for the safety of being dummy in 5¨ doubled after West doubled 4ª. Furuta was given a good start, at least, when Huang naturally began with the top club. He shifted to the ªQ which declarer won to continue with the club suit, won by East. Now ace of hearts and a heart to the king was followed by another spade. Declarer ruffed and ruffed a club setting up his club winner in the process. He still has an anxious moment as he has to decide which trump to play off dummy. If West has 4 then the ten is best, but if the ten is won by East another club will be bad…after some thought he called for the ¨10 and -500 kept the loss to 2 IMPs.

In Indonesia-HK, being won handsomely by Indonesia at the start of play it was a big swing hand: 6© in one room and a stab at 7© in the other….South couldn’t get that ace of spades out fast enough. 14 IMPs to HK.

Board 18 was an unambitious 3NT in the Closed Room in Japan-CT. But in the other Huang made the hand interesting:

Bd 18	ª 98542
Dlr E	© K53
Vul NS	¨ Q
	§ Q1095
ª K		ª AJ763
© AJ4		© 10962
¨ 65432		¨ AK98
§ AK43		§ ---
	ª Q10
	© Q87
	¨ J107
	§ J8762

west	north	east	south
Shih	Furuta	Huang	Chen
		1ª	Pass
2¨	Pass	3¨	Pass
3NT	Pass	4¨	Pass
4©	Pass	5§	Pass
6¨	All Pass

Patrick spent a long time deciding to remove 3NT. Heart lead, of course, and declarer can make by playing spades from the top after drawing a couple of rounds of trumps, but instead he unblocked the king of spades and ruffed a round instead of playing the ace, so one down and 10 IMPs to Japan.

CT heads met under the screen after this hand and words were spoken. Maybe they were discussing their Victory Dinner outfits…maybe not. Let’s move on.

In HK-Indonesia 5¨ making by HK, while Panelewan-Karwur, perhaps deterred by their experience on board 17, bidding a grand off an ace, stayed low this time…6¨ making and 11 IMPs back.

Bd 20	ª 652
Dlr W	© 74
Vul EW	¨ KQ9
	§ AKJ98
ª J93		ª AK107
© J853		© AK9
¨ J5432		¨ 76
§ 2		§ 7653
	ª Q84
	© Q1062
	¨ A108
	§ Q104

west	north	east	south
Shih	Furuta	Huang	Chen
Pass	1§	Dble	Pass
1©	Pass	Pass	Dble
All Pass

Super-aggression from the Japanese pair. A trump lead will beat it, but §A followed smartly by the trump shift was too late: +160 and 2ª failing in the other room by one trick was 6 IMPs to CT. In the other Open match a flat NT part-score.

Board 21 was an excellent game bid only by CT in the Open matches, another 10 IMPs to CT.

Board 22 was in interesting 4© at a couple of tables

Bd 22	ª 75
Dlr E	© AKJ32
Vul EW	¨ Q85
	§ 976
ª KJ1063		ª Q942
© 5		© Q109
¨ K63		¨ J109
§ J1042		§ A83
	ª A8
	© 8764
	¨ A742
	§ KQ5

Against 4© played by HK, Indonesia began with a diamond, even though South had opened that suit. If declarer, Ng, ducks he should get home comfortably, but he hadn’t seen the hand-record and decided to rise, next playing 2 rounds of trumps followed by a club. East, could have risen on that and shifted to a spade to beat 4© but he ducked and the§K won in dummy. Now a diamond to the king and now it is West’s turn: he can still beat it via the spade shift while diamonds are blocked but he played a club to the ace for a spade through – all too late now and another nice swing to HK of 7 IMPs when hearts made a partscore in the other room.

Meanwhile in CT vs Japan, Huang was on lead with the information not only that South had opened 1¨ but that North typically had spade shortage for his slow auction to 4©. That got him off to the immediate spade at trick one and now declarer had no way home…5 IMPs to CT when a partscore made in the other room.

Board 23 and East picked up a good hand which soon went west, so to speak.

ª AJ10

¨ A75

§ 9

All vulnerable LHO opens 1© passed to you. Every East in the Open went quietly and shot the contract one or two: 3 IMPs to Japan and to Indonesia.

From the one level on that board to the six level on the next:

Bd 24	ª K102
Dlr W	© A6
Vul Nil	¨ A9753
	§ 932
ª J9875		ª Q3
© KJ9754		© Q1032
¨ 4		¨ Q1062
§ 6		§ AJ7
	ª A64
	© 8
	¨ KJ8
	§ KQ10854

In CT vs Japan West made an opening bid showing something like the hand he had and began with a diamond to 6§. Chen was playing double-dummy. He rose ace and played a club off dummy. Best is to duck and, given that South had come into the auction at the 4-level with 4§ over 2ª by West and 3© by East. Still, East rose to shoot a diamond back. Declarer finessed, drew trumps and had two entries to dummy to set up and cash his twelfth trick via the long diamond. In the other room 3NT failed to the heart suit led at trick one.

In Indonesia-HK one IMP turned hands when both sides played the club game, HK making six.

The action on board 25 took place at the five level or thereabouts…

Bd 25	ª KJ8
Dlr N	© A10865
Vul EW	¨ J1084
	§ 8
ª 109543		ª AQ76
© J		© Q2
¨ AKQ5		¨ 32
§ 753		§ KJ962
	ª 2
	© K9743
	¨ 976
	§ AQ104

Chen got out cheaply when he bought 5© undoubled in this auction:

west	north	east	south
Shih	Furuta	Huang	Chen
	Pass	1§	1©
1ª	4©	4ª	5©
All Pass

One spade trick and three diamonds: -100. In the other room Nakamura figured those short diamonds were worth a double and so 5 IMPs to Japan.

In the other match Panelewan opened the East hand 1NT and that stopped his side getting into trouble…they overbid to 4ª but NS passed throughout and a quiet one down. Not so in the other room. NS bid to 4© and then North, Tobing, liked his defensive potential when it was passed around to him: double gained +500 and 9 IMPs to Indonesia.

A series of flat boards in both matches and then:

Bd 31	ª 97
Dlr S	© A9732
Vul NS	¨ 972
	§ AKQ
ª QJ5		ª K862
© J		© KQ854
¨ KQ1065		¨ AJ
§ 6543		§ J10
	ª A1043
	© 106
	¨ 843
	§ 9872

System saw North for Japan in the unpleasant 2§. He could take only the five top tricks he was dealt and so -300. In the other room South didn’t bother to hunt down something better than the 1© contract his partner opened. As it turned out he was right. It only went the one down for 5 IMPs to CT.

In the other match HK played 2ª EW for +140. North had opened 1NT and so East bid…(The frequent use of the NT opening by the Indonesians has been working well.) In the other room, disaster. Karwur balanced with a double of 1©, South redoubled hoping for something better. Partner tried 1NT and when East doubled that they gave in graciously…or not. The spade opening lead was a killer, taking out the entry to the long club before they could be unblocked. +500 and 8 IMPs to Indonesia.

On the last board of the set some sort of accident by Japan. It was a cold 4ª made at all the other tables…BBO doesn’t give the play, but when I asked declarer what had happened he said ‘blunder’ and a vulnerable game swing to CT.

At the end of this round of the finals, CT and Indonesia had defeated Japan and HK respectively. That meant CT have a Bermuda Bowl berth, while Indonesia, the winner of 4 vs 5, now get to play Japan for the 3^rd and final BB berth.

After 16 boards of the 64 board playoff there was little in it: 9 IMPs to Indonesia. This will be our last Bulletin with bridge content, so the rest of this final will not be reported, but the scores will be in a last Bulletin distributed during the Victory Dinner.

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PABF Open Pairs

Session one qualifying (Cathy Chua)

Bd 3	ª 862
Dlr S	© 108765
Vul EW	¨ 983
	§ 73
ª KJ93		ª A105
© Q942		© K3
¨ ---		¨ QJ1072
§ KJ985		§ A104
	ª Q74
	© AJ
	¨ AK654
	§ Q62

west	north	east	south
Feiler	Patnarin Kitchakam	Hinge	Terasak Ngamchitkuso
			1NT
Pass	2¨	Dble	Pass
Pass	Redble	Pass	2©
Pass	Pass	3¨	Dble
Redble	All pass

I sometimes wonder, when I’m given hands like this, what sort of upbringing the youth players have had…didn’t their parents ever tell them not to play in the middle of the road? And there is Hinge of the Open team joining in.

Well, you might not like East’s chances and you might like South’s double which was redoubled for rescue and blithely left in. But the facts are that South has exactly one moment when he can beat 3¨ redoubled…at trick one if he leads a club and perseveres with them. One assumes, after the ©A opening lead that +840 was a top…

My personal thanks to all the players, as well as all the support staff here for making the editing of these Bulletins a wonderful experience.

And to finish, Ishmael Del’Monte, one of those New Zealanders who migrate to Australia and become our best players has put together some of his experiences during the qualifying of the pairs. Read on!

PABF Open Pairs

By Ishmael Del’Monte

Session One

Having sat on the sidelines and watched for more than a week I was itching to get my hands on some cards. However, what I did with them was not always wise.

The action starts on board 3. See the deal in the left-side of this column.

Tadashi opened a 15-17 NT in 1^st seat as South and my RHO started to think. When they eventually passed I chose to pass. LHO felt they could not bid after their partner’s hesitation and passed us out. Best defence saw us go 4 down for -200 and a reasonable score.

Bd 5	ª 72
Dlr N	© 2
Vul NS	¨ AK1073
	§ 87542
ª A3		ª 964
© Q108764		© A953
¨ Q96		¨ J84
§ Q6		§ J109
	ª KQJ1085
	© KJ
	¨ 52
	§ AK3

Partner opened 1ª in 3^rd and LHO overcalled 2©. I made a takeout double and Tadashi had a tough rebid when RHO made an interesting pass. He eventually chose 3NT and received the opening lead of the Q§. He won and knocked out ªA. West switched to a diamond and Tadashi decided to try and Endplay West with a diamond. Alas the ©A was onside all along and he made only 600. With an easy 620 available in spades this was a poor score. However on the bright side at least he made it. A heart lead would have lead to 2 down immediately.

Bd 10	ª AK2
Dlr E	© KJ6
Vul All	¨ 432
	§ AK98
ª QJ986		ª 1054
© 73		© Q854
¨ KQ6		¨ A987
§ QJ2		§ 43
	ª 73
	© A1092
	¨ J105
	§ 10765

We played this board against Australian youth Captain, John Roberts, and Australian youth player, Matthew Porter. I overcalled 1NT over East’s 1ª opening and Matt bid 2ª while Tadashi doubled for T/O. I chose to rebid 3NT and won the opening spade lead and immediately played 3 rounds of clubs. John won and established his spades. I won and played to dummy’s 4^th club and played a heart to the jack. This won!! So I naturally played K© and a heart to the Ace expecting the Queen to drop. Matt had been too quick and had played low before he noticed that I had played the J©. So I went a quiet one down. Just another grosvenor!

Bd 16	ª AKQ5
Dlr W	© 743
Vul EW	¨ A103
	§ QJ5
ª 1064		ª J83
© KJ10962		© Q5
¨ ---		¨ K964
§ A986		§ 10732
	ª 972
	© A8
	¨ QJ8752
	§ K4

The West player, a Korean youth player passed as dealer and I opened 1NT. Tadashi raised me to game in NTs and East, another Korean Youth Player led the ©Q without hesitation. This was a swift 3 down but was reduced to 2 down when East ducked one round of diamonds. Still it was very well done!

Bd 19	ª 3
Dlr S	© K982
Vul EW	¨ 9432
	§ A754
ª K1098762		ª J5
© ---		© A6543
¨ J876		¨ AQ10
§ 62		§ K108
	ª AQ4
	© QJ107
	¨ K5
	§ QJ93

Tadashi opened 1NT and West overcalled 3ª. I doubled for takeout, (I hoped) and Tadashi bid 4©. East let his feelings known by doubling. He received a diamond lead to the Ace and a spade switch. He won the Ace and passed the §Q to East. East now returned a trump which Tadashi won with the 7 in hand. He ruffed a spade and played a club to the Jack. He then ruffed his last spade with the K©. When East over-ruffed it was all over. +590 and a near top.

Session two

Bd 12	ª 8532
Dlr W	© Q9
Vul NS	¨ 1052
	§ 9732
ª A		ª Q96
© A10876532		© 4
¨ Q7		¨ AK98643
§ K4		§ J10
	ª KJ1074
	© KJ
	¨ J
	§ AQ865

East missed a chance to try and mislead us when they declared 4©. On the 5ª lead after South had overcalled spades, it would have been good technique to play the spade queen at trick one in order to entice South to continue spades when in with the K©. However with the guarded Qª in dummy it was easy for South to cash the A§.

Bd 13	ª K9876
Dlr N	© AKJ7
Vul All	¨ 1092
	§ J
ª A52		ª J103
© Q1082		© 9654
¨ J7		¨ A86
§ Q86		§ 982
	ª Q4
	© 3
	¨ KQ543
	§ AKQ104

After an Auction I am ashamed of, we got to 6¨. West led a club and Tadashi gave them no second chance. He overtook with the Ace and took the heart finesse. He then discarded his two spades and played a diamond to the King. He entered dummy via a club ruff and played another diamond and guessed correctly. +1370 and a big sigh of relief.

Bd 14	ª AK983
Dlr E	© 65
Vul Nil	¨ K6
	§ AK95
ª J6		ª 52
© AQ93		© J82
¨ 875		¨ J10432
§ J764		§ Q32
	ª Q1074
	© K1074
	¨ AQ9
	§ 108

This proved a difficult defensive problem for E/W. Most people declared 4ª or 6ª from North. I was in 4ª and received a heart lead even after I had bid hearts in an attempt to inhibit the heart lead. West found it hard to cash the A© so early so I still made 12 tricks. I know of at least one Australian pair who let 6ª make after a heart lead through the K!

Bd 18	ª 9742
Dlr E	© AJ104
Vul All	¨ 964
	§ 65
ª 108		ª Q5
© KQ8		© 97632
¨ AJ1082		¨ KQ5
§ A107		§ K94
	ª AKJ63
	© 5
	¨ 73
	§ QJ832

This was one of those classic Yes, NO moments. Tadashi opened 1ª and Paul Lavings from the Australian seniors team doubled. I like double much better than 2¨. I made a pre-emptive jump to 3ª and East, Robert Krochmalik bid 4©. YES! Then Tadashi bid 4ª and Paul Lavings doubled. NO. L 1 down and -200 was not a good result.

Bd 20	ª 54
Dlr W	© J72
Vul All	¨ AKQJ84
	§ 72
ª AJ863		ª Q72
© 10843		© 965
¨ 102		¨ 93
§ 98		§ AJ1043
	ª K109
	© AKQ
	¨ 765
	§ KQ65

In an effort to forget about board 18 I looked at my fine collection an started adding up my points. 11 in high cards and 1 for the 5^th diamond and 2 for the 6^th diamond got me to 14 so I upgraded and opened a strong NT. It didn’t pan out so well when I got to 6NT off two Aces. I made 11 tricks which was more than most but then I was much higher than most. My two opponents were Bobby Richman and George Gaspar of the Australian open team. They knew then why I was the Non Playing Captain and not playing!

Bd 22	ª 7
Dlr E	© KQ76
Vul All	¨ J63
	§ QJ853
ª QJ1092		ª K654
© 8542		© J3
¨ K98		¨ Q5
§ 4		§ A10762
	ª A83
	© A109
	¨ A10742
	§ K9

Tadashi opened 1NT in 2^nd and I used Stayman. When he denied a major I was worried about NT’s with the opponents having at least nine spades. I decided to bid a very conservative and unusual 2©. Tadashi passed and made +170 for a reasonable score.

I look forward to many more adventures in the final tomorrow.

§ ¨ © ª

Today’s Playoff Schedule

Appeal Case No.2

Women Series Playoff 1-1

Japan vs Indonesia

Bd 16	ª AQJ9875
Dlr W	© ---
Vul EW	¨ AQJ42
	§ J
ª K2		ª 106
© AKQ542		© J10862
¨ K10		¨ ---
§ 732		§ AQ10954
	ª 43
	© 97
	¨ 987653
	§ K86

West North East South

Riantini Setoguchi Damayanti Ota

4NT 5ª Pass⁽³⁾ Pass

Dbl All pass

(1) Michaels

(2) East to North = Fit Raise

West to South = Splinter

(3) East to North = Odd Number

West to South = 0/3

The NPCs of both teams came to the TD after the end of the sequence. The Japanese NPC said that the mis-explanation has damaged NS. South said that she would bid 4¨ over 4§ if given the correct information, West said that she would still bid 4NT, North 5¨, East Passing. The TD determined that there was an infraction (misinformation) and that NS’s damage was a direct result of the infraction and hence warranted an adjusted score in accordance with law 21B3 and 40C. In determining the adjustment, the TD assigned the most favourable result in accordance with Law 12C2. Although the pass over over a presumed 5¨ would show 0/3, the TD determined that West was unlikely to take East to have 0 KC in a fit raise. The assigned score is 5©X by W-1.

Decision of the Appeal Committee: The Committee supported the TD’s ruling and the result stand.